Guardianship of Infants Act Amendment Act 1965 (WA)

1965.] Guardianship of Infants. [No. 85.

GUARDIANSHIP OF INFANTS.

No. 85 of 1965.

AN ACT to amend the Guardianship of Infants

Act, 1926-1962.

[Assented to 8th December, 1965.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title

and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Guardianship

of Infants Act Amendment Act, 1965.

Reprinted

Vol. 13 of the

(2) In this Act the Guardianship of Infants Act, Reprinted Acts, as

1926-1962, is referred to as the principal Act.

approved for

reprint,

31st July,

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act 1958.

may be cited as the Guardianship of Infants Act,

1926-1965.

No. 85.] Guardianship of Infants. [1965.

Commence-

This Act shall come into operation on the day on which the Married Persons and Children (Summary Relief) Act, 1965, comes into operation.

ment. 2.

s.2

Section two of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the passage, "any court (whether or not a court within the meaning of the Guardian- ship of Infants Act, 1920)", in lines one, two and three, the words, "the court".

amended. 3.

S. 8

repealed and 4. Section eight of the principal Act is repealed

re-enacted.	and re-enacted, as follows-
Enforcement

of orders.

8. (1) Every order made by the Court, under the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1920, by virtue of this Act, for the payment by the father, to the mother, towards the maintenance of an infant of a weekly or periodic sum, may, regardless of when the order was made, be registered in the manner provided by Rules of Court, in the Summary Relief Court established under the Married Persons and Children (Summary Relief) Act, 1965; and any such payment may, thereupon, be enforced as though it were required to be made pursuant to a provision of an order of that court.

(2) Every order made by a court of summary jurisdiction, under the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1920, by virtue of the provisions of this Act as they existed before the coming into operation of the Guardianship of Infants Act Amendment Act, 1965, is deemed to be an order of the Summary Relief Court mentioned in subsection (1) of this section; and a provision of the order for the custody of an infant is deemed to be a provision for the custody of a child, and a provision of the order for the payment by the father, to the mother, towards the maintenance of an infant of a weekly or periodic sum is deemed to be a provision for the maintenance of a child, within the meaning of the Married Persons and Children (Summary Relief) Act, 1965. .